Lakshmi Sankar is a Chartered Accountant with around 11 years experience in assisting clients navigate Indian tax & regulatory challenges. He has worked with Indian promoters & MNEs from Middle East & western world, build their business in India and is currently focusing on dealing with the Government at the Centre State level, on emerging fiscal policies with specific context to financial sector reforms. He is currently working in the capacity of Associate Director- Financial Sector with the firm.
He has been involved in establishing financial undertakings in India for large foreign banks, foreign venture capital investors and helping promoters/ Indian conglomerates to set up financial service business, navigate acquisition opportunities, create structure that unlock and preserve value creation.
He has extensively worked on engagements/ projects cutting across the financial services spectrum of FinTech, family offices, estate planning, banks, NBFC, peer to peer lending platforms and insurance players. He has successfully helped start-ups and their promoters by exploring the expansion opportunities in India & globally and holds significant experience in advising clients in the areas of transaction advisory, fund structuring, inbound investment advisory, corporate & international tax.
Lakshmi Sankar has worked on tax dispute resolution certainty initiatives including focused discussions with CIT & need based advocacy with the CBDT, Ministry of Finance. He has assisted clients in obtaining complex regulatory approvals with the key arms of the Govt including RBI, DIPP, SEZ.
Meenu Wadhawan is an Associate Director in International taxation and Transfer Pricing practice of Nangia & Co LLP. She possesses over 10 years of rich experience of handling International taxation and Transfer Pricing matters of inbound and outbound multinational clients across a range of industries such as retail, media and entertainment, industrial goods, software and ITES, telecom, automobiles, infrastructure, oil & gas, EPC, financial sector, and many more. Since 2008, she has been involved in various transfer pricing assignments, including transfer pricing planning and global transfer pricing documentation, transfer pricing policy setting, Business Restructuring, transfer pricing structuring, transfer pricing valuations including intangible valuations, Profit attribution analyses, Fin 48 analysis, strategizing and implementing global cross charge mechanism, advisory for inter-company price setting of financial transactions, etc.
She has extensive experience in assisting multi-nationals resolve complex transfer pricing disputes at almost all appellate forums and has also assisted various multi-nationals in resolving disputes through the Mutual Agreement Procedure and APA proceedings.
Prior to Nangia & Co LLP, she was an Associate Director in PwC and has also worked in General Electric’s in-house Transfer Pricing team. She holds Masters in Business Economics and Bachelor in Business Studies degrees from Delhi University.
Vibha Jain is Associate Director in the firm, having work experience of more than 12 years with skills and specialisation in Accounts, Audit, Fund Management, Strategic Management, Credit Risk Assessment, Loan and Financing.
She has been associated with M/s H.C. Sogani & Co. as a partner. With the prime focus on industry outlook, growth drivers, business models, identification of business risks, analysis of financial statements. Experience across industries including dairy and Milk Products, Retail Chains, Automobile, Government Companies, Auto Parts and Ancillary, Real Estate, Information Technology, Security Solutions, E-Commerce etc. She has also served as Class 1 Group A Officer for a period of 5 years with Delhi Government Undertaking.
She has been associated with Institutions as a visiting faculty, for General Management and Communication Skills (GMCS) Institute of Chartered Accountants of India – Delhi and Gurgaon Chapter. Have also delivered lectures as Guest Faculty at Management Colleges in Delhi NCR.
Arpana is an Associate Director – Audit at Nangia & Co LLP. She is an experienced Internal Audit professional with over 11 years of consulting experience. Prior to her association with Nangia & Co LLP, she was working with M/s TRPW Strategic partners as Associate Partner. She had earlier also worked with EY and PWC.
She has substantial experience in Internal Audit and provided design, process and system recommendations to various clients that helped clients in streamlining controls, ensure pending recoveries, introduce cost effective solutions, and identify design gaps and process lapses. She has also handled assignments relating to preparation of SOP’s along with project management and knowledge management activities in her earlier roles.
